Music: Goin’ Down To The River
Mississippi Fred McDowell. Godfather of the Hill Country Blues.
(January 12, 1904 - July 3, 1972) McDowell was born in Rossville, Tennessee, near Memphis. His parents, who were farmers, died when McDowell was a youth. He started playing guitar at the age of 14 and played at dances around Rossville. Wanting a change from ploughing fields, he moved to Memphis in 1926 where he worked in a number of jobs and played music for tips. He settled in Como, Mississippi, about 40 miles south of Memphis, in 1940 or 1941, and worked steadily as a farmer, continuing to perform music at dances, and picnics. Initially he played slide guitar using a pocket knife and then a slide made from a beef rib bone, later switching to a glass slide for its clearer sound. Continue Reading...
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Livin': Round Up Rodeo Weekend
All you Cowgirls & Cowboys head on down to Round Up in Davie, FL this weekend for the Pro Rodeo parties sponsored by Patron & Southern Brand. Friday and Saturday night. There will be a mechanical bull ridin' contest with cash a prizes. And we'll be there handin' out some of our vintage tees and cowhide koozies. So come on down, they got both kinds of music...country and western.
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Music: Orange Blossoms
J.J. Grey & MOFRO, a favorite 'round here. Been groovin' on this song lately. Hope ya'll dig it. The video's a hoot. Check out the whole album here. See 'em live.
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Music: North Mississippi Hill Country Picnic
June 26-27, 2009 - Potts Camp, MS. If you're blessed to be in the North Mississippi/Southern Tennessee area next weekend, shake it on down to Kenny Brown's North Mississippi Hill Country Picnic.
Read about it here, ya'll. And here's a link to this year's line-up.
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Film: Emerging Demographic: Louisianna Vampires
True Blood is back on HBO (Sunday nights) for its second season. And the folks at Digital Kitchen cooked up a sweet campaign for the show. Hats off to them fellas and the companies that played along.
Check out the Fast Company article here.
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Music: You Can Make It
Hill Country Revue's video for the song "You Can Make It" just debuted. Their album, Make A Move, is #4 on Billboard's top blues albums.
Grab it up. And by the way that's a Southern Brand Red Rooster vintage tee that Kirk Smithhart (guitar) is pimpin' and a vintage brown Country tee that Ed "Hot" Cleveland (drums) has got on. Yeeha!
Thanks for diggin' our chili, fellas!
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Music: Roadhouse Sun
We just got our hands on the new Ryan Bingham and the Dead Horses album. Thank ya kindly John! We been through 3 copies of Mescalito here - folks kept "borrowin" 'em and "forgettin" to return 'em.
So when Roadhouse Sun arrived, the wrastlin' match was on. Texas death match. Barb wire and thumbtacks. Bein' that Ray Ray has perfected the sleeper hold. He got first dibs. But he put it on here in the studio for the rest of us "suckas."
When the soft openin' of Day Is Done gave way to Bingham's throaty howlin' of "I was born a bad man's son" over one helluva riff, we were all grinnin', happy to be back in the badlands. Bingham's gravelly West Texas drawl is like that rusted old tin sittin' on top of a roadside barbecue shack, seasoned just right from decades of smoke and sun. And this album is the soundtrack to that badass road movie that's been kickin' around in your head for years, but you just haven't written the script for yet. Git on it!
Out June 2. Buy it brothas & sistas!
Here's what they're sayin':
This Texas troubadour can bring to mind a gravelly-voiced version of another: Ryan Adams. But there are also traces of Bruce Springsteen and Bob Dylan along this rootsy road.
-PEOPLE (3-Star Review)
Bingham’s captivating songwriting easily matches the mark set by 2007’s highly-touted Mescalito.
-American Songwriter (4-Star review of "Roadhouse Sun")
The year’s best Americana record so far is Ryan Bingham’s upcoming Roadhouse Sun.
-Popmatters
Ryan Bingham is the real deal. His sophomore release, Roadhouse Sun, moves from powerhouse country-rock to politically-inspired folk to piano-fueled barrelhouse blues to psychedelic exploration.
-Relix
And here's where you can catch 'em live:
JUNE 2009 - TOUR DATES
Jun 2 Terlingua, TX Starlight Theater
Jun 3 Lubbock, TX Cactus Theater Courtyard
Jun 4 Austin, TX Texas Union Ballroom
Jun 5 Dallas, TX House of Blues
Jun 6 Conroe, TX Crighton Theatre
Jun 8 Baton Rouge, LA Chelsea's
Jun 12 New Braunfels, TX Gruene Hall
Jun 21 Pryor, OK Pryor Creek Music Festival
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Music: Hot Off The Press
Southern Brand recently collaborated with Luther & Cody Dickinson on a limited edition show poster for their homecomin' concert at Memphis' Minglewood Hall. It's the CD release party for Hill Country Revue, who's debut album, Make A Move, is smokin'!
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